Collar turning and dampening device.



No".-73,4.5,42- Y v 'PATENTED JULY 28, 1903..

' c. c. ,GRIDLEY.

COLLAR TURNING AND DAMPENING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 6012.26. 1901.

- 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

no nopzm.

ATTORNEY.

PATENTED JULY ZB, 1903.

ksHBBTs-sHEET 2.

c. 0. GRIDLBQY. COLLAR TURNING AND DAMPENING DEVICE.

APPLIOATIOK PILBD OUT. 26. 1901.

no MODEL.

ATTORNEI.

me New": PETERS cu, mime-Luna. msI-unmom n. c

UNITED STATES fPatented July 28, 1902 PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES o. GRIDLEY, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

COLLAR TURNING AND DAMPE NING DEVICE.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 734,542, dated July 28, 1903.

Application filed 0mm 26, 1901. Serial No. 0,059. on; model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. GRIDLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Golumbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Collar Turning and Dampening Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the improvement of collar turning and dampening devices, and has particular relation to devices for facilitating the turning and dampening of turndown collars on their folding-line.

The objects of my invention are to provide an improved device of this character adapted for steam-laundry use of superior construction and arrangement of parts, whereby a turn-down collar may have its folding-line efiectively steamed and dampened,and to produce certain improvements in details of constructiona'nd arrangements of parts, which will be more fully pointed out hereinafter. These objects I accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved device. Fig. 2 .is'a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line a: or of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a slightly-enlarged section on line y y of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the outer end portion of my improved device with an outer side plate removed. Fig. 7 is a detail pointed extension or termination 2.

view in perspective of said removable outer side plate, showing the inner face thereof. Fig. 8 isan enlarged detail transverse sectional view taken on the line 8 8 of Fig. 2.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In carrying out my invention I employ a hollow head or body 1, the latter having its upper side walls converging to impart thereto a substantially wedge shape and this upper converging portion having at one end a 7 The upper edge portion'of the head or body thus formed is formed on a comparatively slight curve, as indicated more clearlyin Fig. 1 of the drawings. This curved upper edge portion has formed therein throughout about one-half its length a narrow steam-outlet 3, at the inner end of which is a downwardlyextending partition 4. (See Fig. 6.) This partition serves to separate the head or interior thereof into two chambers or compartments 5 and-6'. The outer and smaller chamher 6 is provided at its upper end with a slot ted opening or mouth'7, the body or head 1 being recessed vertically on one side, as indicated at 7-, at the month of said chamber 6. Extending upward through the body 1 and into the chamber 6 is a vertical feed-pipe 8.

The hollow body or head 1 has its lower portion tapering to meet the upper end of a tach'able wing-plate 12, the upper edge of which is parallel with the upper edge of the wing-plate 11 and which also flares or is inclined outwardly. This outwardlyflaring plate 12 has provided on its inner side, as indicated more clearly in Figs. 4 and 7 of the drawings, an angular trough or water-conductor 13, the latter being inclined, as shown, from a point below the chamber-mouth 7 to a point adjacent to the forward or inner end of the plate 12, at which point it is provided with a depending pipe arm '14. Both the plates 11 and 12 are formed opposite the chamber-mouth 7 with u pwardly projecting curved lips, which are indicatedatll and 12 and or similar absorbent material, this tongue being adapted toproject slightly above said lips and to be held in place by engagement therewith of the plate-teeth 15.

As indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the pipe 8 is extended rearward and thence upward to the lower portion of a reservoir or tank 17, said pipe being intersected bya controlling-valve 1S and said reservoir being provided in its upper side with a steam-inlet pipe 19, which might lead from the pipe 9 or other suitable or convenient source of steamsupply.

In operation steam is supplied to the reservoir 17 through the pipe 19 and to the chamber 5 through the pipe 9. It is obvious that the reservoir 17 will act as a steam-condensing chamber and that the product of condensation will pass downward through the pipe 8 and thence upward into the chamber 6, where it will serve to saturate the dampening tongue 16 with moisture. In utilizing my invention the substantially flat or unfolded collar, which has been previously ironed out flat, is bent on its fold-line to embrace the side wings 11 and 12 of the head and is then caused to travel by hand or otherwise over the steam-outlet 3 of the chamber 5, in which operation the steam by contact therewith serves to break the starch on the bending or folding line of the collar and facilitates the bending of the collar-wings downward upon the inclined surfaces of the plates 11 and 12. The continued movement of the collar thus bent over the head and to the end of the point portion 2 results in bringing the folding or bending line of the collar into such contact with the dampening-tongue 16 as to sufficiently dampen the same to facilitate its ironing after leaving the point portion 2. By thus passing the collar over the device the same will not only have imparted thereto the desired shape, but its folding-line will be prepared for the ironing and shaping or curling processes which follow the operation herein described. The surplus water in the chamber 6 passes out over the top of the recess 7 of the body 1, thence downward to the higher end of the water-conductor 13, through which it runs to the outlet or waste pipe 14. It is obvious that the flow of steam through the steam chamber may be regulated by the valve 10 and the flow of water from the condensing-reservoir to the dam pening-chamber 6 may be regulated by the valve 18. The employment of the wing-plates 11 and 12 and their projection above the steam-outlet of the chamber 5 not only serves to elevate the collar out of direct contact with the body 1, but forms a protection against the contact of steam condensation with the collar, such condensation being permitted to pass downward on the inner side of said wing-plates.

From the construction and operation herein shown and described it will be seen that a turn-down collar may be readily and elfectively turned or folded and dampened by substantially one operation.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a collar turning and dampening device, the combination with the converging hollow head having a steam-inlet and a narrow steam-outlet at its upper edge, said head terminating in a curved point, of outwardlyinclined external Wing-plates secured to and extending from said head as described, said wings rising above the steam-outlet of the head, substantially as specified.

2. In a collar turning and dampening device, the combination of a steam-supply head having a partition dividing said head into two compartments, said compartments having comparativelynarrow outlets at their upper ends, a steam-inlet for one of said compartments and a water-inlet for the other and a dampening-tongue supported within and projecting from the mouth of said compartment having said water-inlet, said head terminating beyond the head of said last-named compartment in a curved-point extension, substantially as specified.

3. In a collar turning and dampening device, the combination with the converging hollow head formed with separated compartments, one of said compartments having a steam-inlet and the other a water-inlet and both of said compartments having outlets in their upper and narrower portions, of inclined wing-plates secured to and extending from said head and rising above the outlets thereof, one of said wing-plates havingan inclined Water-conductor on its inner side adapted to receive the overflow from one of said compartments and a dampening-tongue supported in and projecting from the compartment having said water-inlet,substantially as specified.

4. A collar dampening and turning device, comprising a hollow head having a steam-inlet and a longitudinal slot in its top forming a steam-outlet, and external upwardly-converged wing-plates secured to the head with their upper edges projected above the top of the head at opposite sides of the slot therein and separated by an interspace for the escape of the steam.

5. A collar dampening and turning device, comprising a hollow head divided into opposite compartments, which are provided with narrow slot-like openings, a steam-inlet for one of the compartments, a water-inlet for the other compartment, and absorbent material within the said other compartment and pro jected through the slot-like opening thereof to form a dampening-tongue.

6. A collar dampening and turning device, comprising a hollow head divided into opposite compartments, which are provided with outlet-openings, a steam-inlet for one of the compartments,awaterdnletforthe othercomof one of the wing-plates and disposed to partment, an absorbent material Within the catch the overflow from the absorbent mate- 10 said other compartment and projected outrial.

wardly through the outlet-opening thereof to v CHARLES C. GRIDLEY form a dampening-tongue, wing-plates secured to opposite sides of the head and con- In presence of verged toward the outlet-openings, and an in- C. O. SHEPHERD, clined water-trough secured to theinner side W. L. MORROW. 

